Reflections on taste for oral health professionals
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Taste is an important sensory ability that may be disrupted by medication, local anesthesia, and dental procedures. This sense is mediated by buds on the tongue and elsewhere in the mouth and throat. Cells within the bud detect components of sweet, sour, salty and bitter and initiate a nerve response, interpreted by the brain. Many medications can interfere with taste. Intraoral injections and dental instruments can directly damage nerves important to taste, and local anesthetic drugs can be neurotoxic, affecting taste in 0.5-5.0% of dental cases.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Dental Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0002-8177
Year: 1997
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Announcing the biotechnology century
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Biotechnology will be used to create new diagnostic procedures as well as new treatments. The Human Genome Project will eventually identify all 100,000 human genes as well as variations in genes called genetic polymorphisms. Once this is done, doctors will be able to link many diseases to a gene mutation. Tests for these mutations can be conducted on tissue samples and body fluids. Gene therapy can also be used to treat these diseases.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Dental Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0002-8177
Year: 1999
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